India, July 9 -- US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will officially remove Syria from its list of designated state sponsors of terrorism, concluding a near half-century era of severe economic blacklisting.

The historic policy shift, delivered on the sidelines of the highly charged NATO summit in Ankara, marks the most explicit American endorsement to date of Syria's transitional government under Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former rebel commander who engineered the dramatic toppling of the Bashar al-Assad regime in late 2024.

Sitting directly beside the Syrian leader at the Bestepe Presidential Compound, Trump confirmed the administration's intention to dismantle the final legal roadblock pr...